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Heimdall

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« Reply #105 on: February 02, 2011, 03:50:00 PM »
Nobody is developing Xbox 1 BIOSes. I doubt that anyone with access to any BIOS source code even reads these posts any more.
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Heimdall

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« Reply #106 on: July 03, 2011, 05:29:00 AM »
What a fabulously uneducated ramble. If it had been in the Newbie section it might have been excusable, but......

You can already run a BIOS from disk - Google PBL.
The BIOS does come with support for the hardware - what exactly do you think is missing?
If you want different flubber, write your own BIOS.
You can wipe the chip and load your own "custom pre-made BIOS" - that's what TSOP flashing and chip flashing does, and there are loads of BIOSes available, many of which can be customised.
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cbagy

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« Reply #107 on: September 06, 2011, 10:36:00 AM »
Don't know if this has already been covered but here goes.
I can unpack a evoxm8 bios to an img and view its contents no problem.
Why m8 you may ask, well after disabling a few useless bits (flubber etc) it boots much faster for me than the rest, much faster.
I know i can disable flubber etc with X2 bios but i still have to wait for the damn x2 live config BS whether i switch it on or off  blink.gif .
IND has bugs which have been covered on these pages so that rules it out.
Plus m8 doesnt require a boot file on the HDD where as the rest seem to need one for custom configs.
Unless someone can enlighten me to change my thinking !
What i would like to know is it possible to hex edit the m8 bios to recognise 128mb ?
Or does this even matter nowadays as we can patch xbe's with DeLimiter tools.

thanks in advance for any advise or abuse.
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BenJeremy

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« Reply #108 on: July 22, 2003, 08:48:00 AM »
As hacks will become a bit easier to implement, I think it's time we here people's suggestions for new BIOS hacks.

The idea I had is one that eliminates the clock check, or presets it if it's invalid.

I'd also like a BIOS that forces a boot to DVD no matter what (X2 BIOSes seem to have problem with this) - especially if there are problems with the HD

Thirdly, a BIOS shouldn't care if the EEPROM is hosed. The Debug BIOS boots fine with hosed EEPROMs, it's time we had a mod BIOS that did the same.

All three of these ideas are to minimize the many problems modders face using the current batch of 256k BIOSes. Now that code exists to implement patches and test more goodies, perhaps we'll see new BIOS hacking groups emerge on the Xbox Scene.
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BenJeremy

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« Reply #109 on: July 22, 2003, 08:49:00 AM »
Oh... also, compatiblity with the Phoenix Loader for future BIOS releases... at least as a secondary release or a simple PPF patch (or maybe a tool?)
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« Reply #110 on: July 22, 2003, 09:13:00 AM »
FTP server built into the bios... have a bios setup screen, kinda like on PCs.  You could do all the XB-Tool stuff off of your xbox (i can't see this working with anything but the pheonix bios loader though).  I'll post again when I think of more.
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« Reply #111 on: July 22, 2003, 09:24:00 AM »
QUOTE (muerte @ Jul 22 2003, 06:06 PM)
FTP server built into the bios... have a bios setup screen, kinda like on PCs.  You could do all the XB-Tool stuff off of your xbox (i can't see this working with anything but the pheonix bios loader though).  I'll post again when I think of more.

That bios editor on xbox seems nice!
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Heet

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« Reply #112 on: July 22, 2003, 11:30:00 AM »
I wondered if ftp could be built into the bios.  That would be an amazing dev if its possible.  No more need to put this in dashboards.  Great ideas BJ!!
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« Reply #113 on: July 22, 2003, 11:50:00 AM »
QUOTE (Xeero @ Jul 22 2003, 03:26 PM)
Similar to how the X2 BIOS patches XBEs with media checks on the fly, it would be nice if it would patch XBEs that attempt to connect to Live in the same manner.  It would be nice if it would display an error notifying the user, then load the dashboard.....of even just load the dashboard.  That would be sufficient, and I can't imagine it would be that difficult.

Especially with Live Aware coming out. Who knows how that will work "behind the scenes". I wonder when the time will come when people will need a second Xbox just for Live. I know I am glad I already got that.

This post has been edited by shanafan: Jul 22 2003, 06:57 PM
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« Reply #114 on: July 23, 2003, 12:18:00 AM »
There was a discussion a while back on making a BIOS hack that wouldn't boot from DVD first, however this would cause problems if the harddisk boot failed.

It would be really good if the BIOS would boot to say dvdboot.xbe instead of default.xbe so that a boot disk could always be made...

Final point though, it might be a good idea that whovever creates this hack, be it XbTool or by Xecuter team, decides on what the boot name is. That way we all have the same boot name for our bootdisks.

Also, a more stable - reliable IGR that just returns to Evox.

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shanafan

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« Reply #115 on: July 23, 2003, 06:34:00 PM »
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Also, a more stable - reliable IGR that just returns to Evox.

Have you tried X2's?
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feflicker

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« Reply #116 on: July 27, 2003, 10:19:00 PM »
How about:

IN GAME SHUTDOWN.

We have IGR, but how about a controller combo that shuts the xbox power off? That would be awesome. (I don't want to do a controller mod, fixing a power switch, etc.)
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« Reply #117 on: July 27, 2003, 10:20:00 PM »
connects to my fridge and a robot that work together to bring me beer
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« Reply #118 on: July 27, 2003, 10:29:00 PM »
bootloader ,to chose dashboard
kinda like linux

This post has been edited by assmonkey: Jul 28 2003, 05:30 AM
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nickman

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« Reply #119 on: July 28, 2003, 12:59:00 AM »
QUOTE (feflicker @ Jul 28 2003, 07:12 AM)
How about:

IN GAME SHUTDOWN.

We have IGR, but how about a controller combo that shuts the xbox power off? That would be awesome. (I don't want to do a controller mod, fixing a power switch, etc.)

Is it so hard to do a IGR and then select shutdown from the dashboard you are using ? wink.gif
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